This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the successes and failures in China's current legal system construction. It systematically and comprehensively examines the development of China's rule of law policy since the reform and opening up, as well as future trends. The main areas covered include: The course, achievements and motivation behind China's construction of law-based administration; Development, status quo and general characteristics of administrative legislation; Reform of the administrative examination and approval system and the administrative licensing system; The relationship between social security system reform, beneficial administration and service government; The development of administrative law in China; Origin of the concept of due process, experiences with and development trends concerning China's administrative legislative procedure; The importance of government information, open practices, problems and development trend; History, current situation, reformmechanism of the emergency management system and the improvement of the legal system for emergency requisitions; The course, practical problems in and reasons for the enhanced approach of administrative reconsideration system; The course, achievements in, current situation and enhanced approach of administrative litigation system; The course of the national compensation system; and the construction of responsible government and administrative accountability system.

Provides the big picture of rule of law in today's China Based on the views of respected judicial authorities Projects future developments in detail?

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Huaide Ma was born in Xining, Qinghai province, in 1965. He is the vice president of China University of Political Science and Law, president of the Research Center for Government by Lawa Key Research Base of Beijing Social Science; professor; advisor of doctoral students; vice president of the academic committee of China University of Political Science and Law; president of China Behavior Law Association; standing director of China Law Society; vice president of China Supervision Society; vice president of the Chinese Society for Academic Degree and Graduate Education; guest consultant for the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China; expert consultant for the Supreme People's Procuratorate; member of the Coordination Committee of National Judicial Examination and; consultant or expert consultant of National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Health, and the people's governments of Beijing, Shandong province, Fujian Province and Hunan province. He graduated from Beijing University and obtained a Bachelor of Law in 1988. He received his doctoral degree in China University of Political Science and Law in 1993. He became the first person to earn a doctorate in Administrative Procedure Law in China. He was a visiting scholar at Yale University, Boston University, University of Sydney, and the University of Melbourne.

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Abstracts.- Building a Government based on the Rule of Law in China, 1949-present: A Historical Review.- The Legislative Process of Administrative Law in China.- The Reform of Administrative Examination and Approval System and Administrative Permission.- Welfare State and Government Benefits.- Legislation of Due Process and Administrative Procedure.- Information Disclosure and Government Transparency.- Emergency and Government Response Management.- The Development and Improvement of Administrative Review System.- Developing and Improving the Administrative Litigation System.- State Compensation and Government Accountability.